Improving fingerprint alteration detection

Fingerprint alteration is a type of presentation attack in which the attacker strives to avoid identification, e.g. at border control or in forensic investigations. As a countermeasure, fingerprint alteration detection aims to automatically discover the occurrence of such attacks by classifying fingerprint images as `normal' or `altered'. In this paper, we propose four new features for improving the performance of fingerprint alteration detection modules. We evaluate the usefulness of these features on a benchmark and compare them to four existing features from the literature.

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